"I can't go under car parks, thunderstorms, lightning storms scare the shit out of me because of the noise factor of that club," she said.

"It was dead quiet and then when everything happened it was so loud, so, so loud.

"It's like a mechanism in the back of your brain, you don't think about it until they really publicise it on the TV, the first anniversary, the second anniversary, etc."

For the 25th anniversary, these friends will be leaning on each other for support.

"When it is the anniversary and it's flashed on the TV and they show the Workers Club, and you know exactly where everybody was, you know exactly what happened, what the situation looked like and you think 'thank God I'm alive," Ms Ingram said.